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Anonymous Mon Apr 7 01:40:59 2014 No.1526709 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Relaxing games.

Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future is one such game. Not only is it absolutely beautiful since the scenery was based off of real photos but the graphic quality is high and the draw distance out of water is extremely far so you see amazing sunsets and awesome waterfalls and shores. Swimming around can be really satisfying. Ecco can swim very fast, to the point where getting disoriented is easy, but the player can have great control. They can barrel roll in the water, swim backwards, turn on a dime and tailwalk on the surface. Plus, players can dash out of the water into the air and do tricks, including smiling and cackling. After the first level it's possible to interact with turtles and fish as well. Just swimming around doing flips and cackling as you tailwalk is super relaxing and really fun.

Of course the game holds great danger for our underwater hero, but there are plenty of spots where you can just screw around and have fun without any worries.

What other games are like this? Off the top of my head I can think of Harvest Moon and Chrono Trigger (the end of time is super relaxing to me)

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 01:51:44 2014 No.1526732 harvest moon is not relaxing. when you're trying to get 100% and have to rush everywhere to get everything done each day, milk all 20 cows etc, it gets very tiresome. to add though, I'd say any turn based jrpg is relaxing (not action rpgs tho).

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Anonymous Mon Apr 7 01:55:23 2014 No.1526740

>>1526732

You don't have to do all that in Harvest Moon though. You can take your time, you can explore the mountain and rest in the hot springs, spend your time at the bar and chatting with the town's inhabitants. You can ride your horse through the fields and have fun playing with your animals. If you get married I found it relaxing just to spend time in the house with the wife. Obviously you have to bust your ass to get the best ending but it's not the end-all-be-all of the game. I guess it requires a bit of imagination to get that relaxing feeling from Harvest Moon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 01:56:52 2014 No.1526746 >>1526740 When i first played in on SNES i got those relaxed feels, but then i got my farm taken away :( . Lately I need goals in games to enjoy them, can't stand open world

>>	Smile Mon Apr 7 02:06:52 2014 No.1526762 File: 9 KB, 318x222, Endless_sea.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] you had to post the one bad ecco game? ecco jr is comfiest ecco

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 02:09:52 2014 No.1526768 >>1526762 >the one bad ecco game >proceeds to post ecco jr You're the worst poster on this board and I'm glad your shitposts get deleted often.

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Anonymous Mon Apr 7 02:10:52 2014 No.1526770

>>1526709
Ecco on DC gave me motion sickness like no other game. It was especially bad in the underwater cave sections.

On topic though, I'd say pilotwings. I can't speak for the N64 version (never played it), but the SNES version was great when I was just taking my time.

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Anonymous Mon Apr 7 02:15:53 2014 No.1526782
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Most of the myst series games, but Uru especially. The artwork direction and ability to always go back to your Relto and check your notes, watch the birds, listen to the stream and such.
Garden ages that were built for beauty, those glorious ruins of ancient D'ni. Hell the only times in Uru that I ever wasn't comfy and relaxed was when they acted out the murder of a teenage girl by the Bahro on the server as part of the developing plot, and the door to the library, whooshing open with that damn loud noise when you walk towards it.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 19:21:41 2014 No.1528543 File: 39 KB, 319x400, aloneinthedark.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lWaQe8LPW0

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 19:36:32 2014 No.1528573 >>1526709 Sonic Adventure as a whole is very relaxing. Big the Cat stages are the best to relax, they're not serious and you just fish there with a wonderful scenery/soundtrack behind you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYamLMX5vyA

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Anonymous Mon Apr 7 19:54:02 2014 No.1528617
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I don't really know if Animal Crossing counts as retro but that is ichi-ban relaxing game for me.
SimAnt (Snes or pc)
Civilization (Any)
SimCity (Really only relaxing on Snes)
Kirby's Dream Course (Snes)
Any game in the Katamari series
Any Monster Rancher game
Super Mario Sunshine (GC)
Super Mario 64
Any Ape Escape game
Viva Pinata series (Xbox 360)
Toejam and Earl (Genesis)
Eador : Genesis (pc but technically not really retro in terms of age)

Also pic related... ah good times.

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Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:28:50 2014 No.1529132

>>1526782
I'd say realMyst, And Riven are my favorite 2... Uru was okay, but I never got anywhere near beating it. The seclusion of Myst is one of the things that makes it comfy for me, and Uru was a little less so.

Never beat 3. Got stuck in some plant age where everything was a clusterfuck and didn't want to walkthrough it. I should go back to it sometime...

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 06:29:41 2014 No.1531814 File: 5 KB, 642x404, Hunter_Amiga_10[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hunter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA3pTA2DNhc

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 06:52:11 2014 No.1531827 >>1528617 >Majesty >relaxing DRAGONS AND WEREWOLVES EVERYWHERE

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 09:01:05 2014 No.1531904 Old adventure games on the Atari 800 are pretty relaxing, take too much time though. One day I'll play through them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 15:43:31 2014 No.1532309 >>1531814 This was great fun. First of its kind as far as I know.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 17:34:25 2014 No.1532497 >>1532309 It's cool because you can spend all your time just going around the archipelago without caring about the mission.... almost like a proto-open world game

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 16:00:31 2014 No.1534483 >>1526768 Do not respond to his shitposts. Report and ignore.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 17:34:01 2014 No.1534720 Loom, Day of the Tentacle, old Monkey Island games, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Earthbound, Mother 3, Gabriel Knight, Grim Fandango

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 20:22:40 2014 No.1535140 >>1526768 Do not engage the known shitposter troll.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 22:40:38 2014 No.1535503 Can anyone recommend me same comfy NES games? I want to doze off while playing in bed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 22:42:37 2014 No.1535506 >>1535503 some* Sorry, I'm posting from android.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 23:38:37 2014 No.1535687 File: 7 KB, 425x474, yumetarou.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1535503 Gimmick, Kirby's Aventure, Little Samson, Cocoron, Ufouria, Joy Mech Fight, Mappy

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 23:48:07 2014 No.1535721 >>1535687 Also,Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, Esper Dream 2, Time Zone.